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Description: | Four ceramic wheel-thrown base sherds (thickness ranging from 11-12mm; collective weight: 112.34g). All the sherds are probably Severn Valley ware, with a hard but fine-textured fabric of grey/ brown or reddish-orange colour at the surface, sometimes with a grey core. All sherds are slightly micaceous with small frequent inclusions. None of the pieces are decorated, but are slightly worn and in a fair condition.Widely distributed Severn Valley forms include handled tankards, storage and wide-mouthed jars, with production flourishing during the 2nd and early 3rd and continuing into the 4th century AD. Several 2nd/ 3rd century kiln sites are known, extending through the Severn valley (Alkington, Ledbury, Malvern, Perry Barr) to Wroxeter. The earliest production centres are not yet identified, but they were perhaps in the Gloucester region. During the mid 1st century AD, distribution was largely confined to sites in the Severn valley near the Gloucester region, but from the later 1st century, distributions were present at and around Wroxeter and Chester. The pottery is abundant on sites in the lower Severn basin through the 2nd/ 3rd century, but there was extension of small-scale supply to north-west England and near Hadrian's Wall and Scotland in the 2nd century (Tyers, 1996, page 197-9).
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